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Enhancing Provider Reporting of Notifiable Diseases using HIE-enabled Decision Support
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Traditionally, public health agencies (PHAs) wait for hospital, laboratory or clinic staff to initiate case reports. However, this passive approach is burdensome for reporters and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment… read more… and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of disease in the community and … and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of disease in the community and … -
Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality
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Health care processes consume increasing volumes of digital data. However, creating and leveraging high quality integrated health data is challenging because large-scale health data derives from systems where data is captured from varying workflows… read more… data sources; there are known data quality issues that hinder the utility of such data; and there is a paucity of … data sources; there are known data quality issues that hinder the utility of such data; and there is a paucity of … -
Surveillance of Stillbirth and Syphilis Screening Using Electronic Health Records
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Reports of infants born with congenital syphilis have increased in the United States every year since 2012. Prevention depends on high performing surveillance systems and compliance with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)… read more… challenging, since public health agencies often lack access to comprehensive cohorts of tested individuals … challenging, since public health agencies often lack access to comprehensive cohorts of tested individuals …